Sasha Kai
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Posted - 2008.10.28 01:28:00 -
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All this will acomplish is a redistribution of wealth towards people who own rarity 16 and rarity 32 moons.
This will in effect place higher demand on rare 16's and to rare 32's, resources that are already getting scarce.
The out come will be Dyp and Prom raw materials decreasing in value, but still retaing a > 20:1 value over rarity 16's (taking into account extra reaction towers to manufacture them)
Rarity 16's will increase in value, as the resource needs to be distributed over a broader range of reactions.
Rarity 32's will increase in value as more players need the resource to react with the alternative source of high ends
the over all effect will be high end composites are reduced in value to a certain extent, but low end composites will increase in value, along with mid end to a certain extent. the over all effect will be build cost for T2 remaining the same of increasing.
Greyscale did hit one thing on the head however: as more players come into the game and more players achieve skills to fly/build T2, demand increases for the resource and prices rise. This solution dosnt address this issue. All it does is redistributes the wealth/pressure onto other resources, which are also finite, and will now have a much greater application.
I cannot see this working effectivley as it is based on moving production to a common resource, which is still finite, but increasing the amount needed by 20:1. Unless CCP plans on cedeing more Raity 16's, the market will react with higher prices.
Not only this, Its placing more emphisis on POS, which in turn leads to more POS warfare, which most people do not find a fun part of the game. Although these are not the sweeping changes some would have hoped for (thank god!), they will do little but redistribute some wealth. If this is what you want to achieve, then fine, but it dosnt address supply and demand issues for fintie resources.
A better change would have been substituting or creating a new reaction to replace one or two of the dypsorium based reactions, using Neodymium and the greatly underutilised Thulium, to make some of the high end composites. This would reduce pressure on Dypsorium and promethium, and in turn reduce the value of these minerals, by increasing the value on the other two rarity 64's, theoreically by a factor of 2:1, without placing undue pressure on low ends. Rarity 64's should be fought over and owned by large corps/alliances.
Flame away...
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